UK–EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Employment and Environment Protection
(asked on 25th February 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Trade:
What plans she has to maintain employment and environmental protections in the UK–EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement.
This question was answered on 25th February 2021
There is no Government plan to reduce workers’ rights or environmental protections, and the UK’s high standards have never been dependent on EU membership. The Trade and Cooperation Agreement meets the Government’s fundamental objective of ensuring that the EU has no control over our rules, while meeting our manifesto commitments to get a Free Trade Agreement with the EU, and to make no compromises to our high labour, environment and climate standards provided by our laws and regulations.